― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
It was a Dan Perry kind of post
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Evil One (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the one - thank you!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, this makes me hate them
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
there's logic to this. I'd totally listen to an Indigo Girls CD-R comp made by somebody who I knew had taste and access to their rather huge discography).
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I was referring to this...
now that i'm about a decade removed from those AWFUL AWFUL GIRLS at my highs chool who loved the indigo girls so much
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
haha true story: I only know "Closer to Fine" because K@hleen Edwards, who was then in my chemistry and world issues classes, used to play it all the time at high school coffeehouses. An early stepping-stone on her route to fame!
I still hear "What I Am" in pubs sometimes. I really don't like the lyrics, which do strike me as pretty blatantly anti-intellectual and in a gratingly smug and corny way, and I don't find the music at all interesting or appealing enough to overcome this. I can tune out lyrics but the music doesn't do much for me.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
I think we have that one at the radio station! I'll check it out.
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 17 September 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
No, duh. I may have misinterpreted amst - I thought he was saying these people were awful because of how they were fans, rather than awful independent of their fandom.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I prefer the remix that some Italian DJ did in 1989. Andrew Weatherall must have really liked it too, 'cause he sampled it for "Loaded"!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 17 September 2004 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
-- gabbneb (gabbne...) (webmail), September 17th, 2004 4:37 PM. (gabbneb) (later) (link)
def. the latter
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Saturday, 18 September 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Indigo Girls' "Virginia Wolff" has the Worst Lyric Ever: "You weathered the storm of cruel mortality." If that means what I think it's supposed to mean, no, she didn't. She's dead. (By drowning suicide, which makes the line even worse, as my friend Becca once pointed out.)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 September 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 18 September 2004 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway, thanks to the virginia wolff story, i now take back even the most tentative reassessment of the indigo girls i ventured on this thread.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Saturday, 18 September 2004 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link
maybe they mean she lived through a lot of other people's deaths? like those movies that just keep coming out these days
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
No shit.
I have to agree that it's the vomitous guitar solo that well and truly kills "What I Am."
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 18 September 2004 06:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 18 September 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah I was surprised how much I liked that record, given my low tolerance for all things Indigo. It's not great or anything, but it's nice and fuck-offish (even though the Joan Jett cameo is kind of a letdown).
Of these two songs, the Edie one has a pretty good groove, which is more than the Indigos ever had.
― spittle (spittle), Saturday, 18 September 2004 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 September 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link